Article Review of 'Improve Your Child's Memory: Why Remembering Is Key to School Success'

In the section “Tips from the Science of Memory-for Studying and for Life”, found in our textbook, “Experience Psychology”, the Arthur Laura A. King discusses the importance of study habits. She addresses the skills needed to turn short-term memory into long-term memory through organizing, encoding, rehearsing and retrieving the information we study and memorize. “No matter what the model of memory you use, you can sharpen your memory by thinking deeply about the “material” of life and connecting the information to other things you know.” (King. 2013).

Memory is divided into three categories. These categories consist of: sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory, out of these short term memory is the main focus in this essay. It has been widely researched due to interest of how much memory can be stored, how long this memory can be stored for and what information is memorised.

Researchers such as Logie, Baddeley and Bunge generally agree that the short-term memory is made up of a number of components or subsystems. The working memory model has replaced the idea of a unitary store short-term memory as suggested by the multistore model. The working memory model explains a lot more and in a lot more detail than the multistore model. It makes sense a range of tasks- verbal reasoning, comprehension, reading, problem solving and visual and spatial processing, it also applies to real life tasks such as reading which involves the phonological loop subsystem, problem solving which involves the central executive and navigation which involves the visual and spatial subsystem. The Working Memory Model is supported by

Historically, societal developments in school children have created generations of adults to misunderstand the basis and reasoning for specific answers. Reform in education is necessary. Students aren’t learning but they are instead remembering. Exams and tests are simply testing a student’s memory knowledge from a textbook instead of generating natural and insightful responses from a student’s point of view in their knowledge of a subject. One way to ultimately counter the idea of students revolving around a concept of memory in exams is to shape classrooms back to the original Socratic method.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec once said “You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec’s quote relates to the theme of the importance of memory by saying that reality can fade away however memory will always stay in your heart no matter what. Scrooge knows this however doesn’t see it until the Ghost of Christmas Past shows him his past memories of Christmas. For example, the Ghost of Christmas Past shows his first Christmas all alone in his old school’s room as a child. As well as when Scrooge is shown his past Christmas with his family for the first time since his father had changed. Lastly when he enjoys his Christmas with his friends from his work with their annual Christmas party and has a wonderful time. “The Christmas Carol” displays the importance of memory.

1) Memory is the act of reviewing or processing of what has been studied. We use memory to learn and think in our everyday lives. Memory is a personal library in our brain for us to look back at information we encounter in our lives. While doing research on this paper I stumbled upon a lot of informations about memory and tips and trick to improve our memory. In chapter 7 of Karen Huffman and Katherine Dowdell's textbook, I learned amazing new bits knowledge into how we recall information and why we forget. Memory is broken up into three parts. You have encoding, storage, retrieval. Encoding is the introductory learning data. Storage is the maintenance of encoded data over time. Retrieval is the ability to get to the data when you need it. All three of memory stages figures out if something is recollected or forgotten. Students will likely not remember

I found the time given to me to read wasn’t enough, when reading retention requires decoding and understanding what is written. There were terms that I do not use on a daily basis and I required a few more seconds to assimilate the information and find connections to my prior knowledge. Furthermore, I decided to re-read the text one more time to proceed answering the questions given. In order for me to respond to the three questions I needed to retain the information provided in the paragraph, remembering only pieces of the paragraph would have not been helpful to accurately answer the questions. I considered this exercise a great way to stimulate children’s memory issues.

Memory work interventions are great to use with children, since during this time they are starting to form memories. Through memory work children are able to retell their stories and the stories of others, and are able to create new stories or recall memories through making meaningful projects (as stated in Neimeyer, 2012). Through this intervention as Goldman states, “a bereaved child constructs the deceased though an ongoing cognitive process of establishing memories, feelings, and actions appropriate to the child’s developmental level” (as stated in Neimeyer, 2012, p. 240). Memory work is an intervention that will help children not to forget about the deceased. Memory work can take the form of writing, objects, albums, picture stories, and memory boxes.

This essay addresses the working memory model which was proposed by Baddeley and Hitch (1974 in Smith & Kosslyn, 2007) as a response to Atkinson and Shiffrins (1968 in Smith, 2007) multi-store model. According to Baddely and Hitch the multi-store model failed to explain most of the complexities of the human memory and viewed it as being too simplistic. They argued that the short term memory store must have more components rather it being a single inflexible store as suggested previously by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968). The working memory model is therefore an enhancement of the multi store model. According to Baddeley and Hitch working memory is a limited- capacity system that stores and processes information.

Define and give an example of how you would use one different memory control strategies in your academics.

To assess the memory of the two groups, we can use two tasks. The first task is working memory which includes three practices one before the scanning by one day or more, the second before the scanning and the third practice within the scanning. The

Stated in the article, some teachers see a huge increase with students showing improvement and try to learn to their full potential. In a school setting, students and teachers judge the success based on their understanding, processing, and remembering the information. This can lead to effectiveness by the teacher, students, and anyone who is observing. Also, it can lead to conclusion where the students have made a progress in a particular lesson and can remember no much of the information at a later time. In some cases, recalling information can be harder to improve which can lead to better

Recall Concepts, Ability to Understand” by Lizette Borreli, the author says that using handwriting method to take notes is more beneficial for students than typing it using electronic devices. Handwriting notes help students to improve their brains to memories and remember different concepts. The author stated that one of the most important method students can use to organize and remember their work is note taking. Also, with the spread of modern technology students now have many different ways to take notes. The author further stated that students who use handwriting technique to take notes have more freedom to choose the way they like to write it, and they do not

During middle childhood, children begin to realize that some things should be remembered and they do this through repetition. Children remember things such as their phone number, but do not truly understand what it means. Children then begin to use strategies they learn, such as using visual cues and auditory hints. Visual cues are remembering what certain words look like and auditory hints are things such as rhymes to help them remember. Then towards the end of middle childhood, children use more skillful memory tricks they have learned from mentors. They can begin to organize information on their own and create their own techniques. Past experience, current opportunity, and personal motivation all affect a child’s knowledge base. Now

The authors are looking at an issue that is interdisciplinary in nature, so they determined that they must seek research evidence from each of the important fields of study implicated in the research. The three areas of study were educational psychology which gave insight into how people learn, foreign language teaching and cognitive psychology which has to do with memory (Erbes, et al, 2010). The researchers determine that in the field of educational psychology, studies had long been engaged in determining how teachers could use information gained in studies of brain function to enhance curricula and teaching (Erbes, et al, 2010). In one of the studies examined, Sutton (2008) had tried to see how teaching